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Southerners defended these laws as honest attempts to restore order in the South. They also said these codes protected blacks from the results of their own "laziness and ignorance." Southerners thought the 14th Amendment had been passed to punish them for starting the Civil War, and they refused to ratify it.
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Answer: C. is what I believe it is
Better educated workforce, greater occupational specialization, better matching of skills with jobs, and higher overall economic productivity. Immigration